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In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well-defined meaning.
Author: H. A. Kramers
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You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.
Author: H. R. Haldeman
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When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.
Author: H. V. Prochnow
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Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong.
Author: H. W. Longfellow
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The camera cannot lie. But it can be an accessory to untruth.
Author: Harold Evans
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I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.
Author: Harry S. Truman
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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Author: Harry S. Truman
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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
Author: Havelock Ellis
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If you want to commit suicide you can use my razor; it's electric, but you can hang yourself with the cord.
Author: Haythum R. Khalid
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I had rather be right than be President.
Author: Henry Clay
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Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
Author: Herbert Westren Turnbull
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You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
Author: Hermann Weyl
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I think, therefore I am - I think.
Author: Howard Schneider
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In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
Author: Idi Amin Dada
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Happy campers you have been, happy campers you are, and happy campers you will always be.
Author: J. Danforth Quayle
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Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Author: James F. Byrnes
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I'm a high school student and this is from a poem I wrote called Sometimes He Wonders. You may split it into different parts if you'd like - right now I'll put it as Unsorted.
And He feels so incredibly weak when he has ferociously quarreled against them since his genuine years and has lost. His hopes for a better understanding dissipate as he grows older, and his mind grows less eager to reach a verdict. Having no sense of direction, he roams here, looking above, asking futile questions, even though the answers may be feared. Good by nature, he has learned his survival skills, which will lead him into the real world, and will someday make him a successful individual. Wishing the pressure did not exist, it is a natural instinct to adapt and not to recluse. He rather is a mindless drone than a lonely Hermit, after all. He has no control over his environment, it is the exact opposite. Molded and shaped by his surroundings, he seeks about for himself and his purpose, while this mold slowly deteriorates organic matter.
Author: Manuel Monne
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If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
Author: Norman Thomas
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A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
Author: Robert Burton
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Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
Author: Franklin Jones
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Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. - The Importance of Living, 1937.
Author: Lin Yutang
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Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
Author: Betty Smith
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A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success. - On Doing What One Likes.
Author: Alec Waugh
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And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
Author: Sir Thomas More
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Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
Author: Sir Laurence Olivier
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Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together?
Author: Clyde Kluckhohn
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Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance? - The Colby Essays.
Author: Frank Moore Colby
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I'm not addicted to nicotine, so why do I have to participate in your drug addiction?
Author: Ken Faver
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In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
Author: Paul Eldridge
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I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
Author: George Gordon Byron
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
Author: M Scott Peck
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Time is the fire in which we burn.
Author: Gene Roddenberry
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For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted. - The Wretched of the Earth.
Author: Frantz Fanos
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Be and not seem. A man is related to all nature. The less government we have the better. Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. To be great is to be misunderstood. Every man is in some way my superior. A man is a god in ruins. Life is a festival only to the wise. Knowledge is the only elegance. We boil at different degrees. Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it. We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. What is the hardest thing in the world? To think. Accept your genius and say what you think. Make yourself necessary to somebody. The only way to have a friend is to be one. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Music causes us to think eloquently. To live without duties is obscene. It is not length of life, but depth of life. The greatest homage to truth is to use it. The only reward of virtue is virtue. Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. We become what we think about all day long. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. There is no knowledge that is not power. Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. Who so would be a man must be a nonconformist. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. Heroism feels and never reasons and is therefore always right. A good indignation brings out all one's powers. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. Beauty rests on necessities. The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can. Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind. We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. The only sin we never forgive each other is difference of opinion. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams. What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. The only sin we never forgive each other is difference of opinion. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real. Perhaps they are. The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Our faith comes in moments, yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences. We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is merely through a transfer of idolatry. What lies beyond us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age. Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?. The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature. To think is to act. We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of somebody's enthusiasm. It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances. If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds. There is no beautifier of complexion or form of behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us. This gives force to the strong - that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action. -U.S. Poet.
Author: U.s. Poet
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We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
Author: Alfred Jarry
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Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.
Author: Richard Rorty
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Good things, when short, are twice as good.
Author: Baltasar Gracian
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Nothing lowers the level on conversation more than raising the voice.
Author: Stanley Horowitz
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They seldom looked happy. They passed one another without a word in the elevator, like silent shades in hell, hell-bent on their next look from a handsome stranger. Their next rush from a popper. The next song that turned their bones to jelly and left them all on the dance floor with heads back, eyes nearly closed, in the ecstasy of saints receiving the stigmata.
Author: Andrew Holleran
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I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.
Author: David Crosby
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Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.
Author: George Steiner
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If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
Author: Stanley Garn
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It takes one hour of preparation for each minute of presentation time.
Author: Wayne Burgraff
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I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.
Author: George Farquhar
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I try to leave out the parts that people skip.
Author: Elmore Leonard
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Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better.
Author: Charles Burney
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There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent. It behooves the industrialist to research and the investor to be vigilant.
Author: Ralph L. Woods
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All television is children's television.
Author: Fred Allen
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If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
Author: Katharine Hepburn
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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
Author: Andres S. Tannenbaum
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